User: khuber

Re:Why Apache?

On: High-Performance Web Server How-To

BigIP->IIS->IPlanet->MQ Series->Back end.
Databases are DB2 on Sun 6500s.

-Kevin

Re:That "howto" sucks

On: High-Performance Web Server How-To

Yes, I'm sort of playing a little dumb here ;). We go load balancer to front end web servers to app servers, then through a request router to back end servers. I work on the back end apps. We don't use clustering, but rather home grown replication.

-Kevin

Re:But any web server is high-performance

On: High-Performance Web Server How-To

Very good info Jim.

Yeah, my experience is at a relatively large site. We use mostly large and midrange Suns, EMC arrays and so on. There's a lot of interest in the many small server architecture though that is still being investigated.

-Kevin

Re:But any web server is high-performance

On: High-Performance Web Server How-To

Our databases are tuned. Some apps would just need to transfer too much data per request for a SQL call to be feasible.

-Kevin

Re:10'000 RPM

On: High-Performance Web Server How-To

I know. I was just being a butthead :).

-Kevin

Re:Server running at near 100% load

On: High-Performance Web Server How-To

The server is responsive now. I wonder what they did.

-Kevin

Re:Building a Better Webserver in the 21st Century

On: High-Performance Web Server How-To

I hate to do this, but actually MS has put out some good stuff that's relevant to larger sites.

http://www.microsoft.com/backstage/whitepaper.htm

-Kevin

Re:my $0.02

On: High-Performance Web Server How-To

Back alley colocation. It's the only way to afford it these days.

-Kevin

Re:Strange choice of processors

On: High-Performance Web Server How-To

Boy I don't know if I'd say that. I really like quad+ boxes. From my view as a developer they seem to work pretty well. Most web serving stuff isn't CPU bound, it's I/O bound. Having a couple processors seems to smooth things out.

-Kevin

Re:Why Apache?

On: High-Performance Web Server How-To

Any web server can be good enough as long as you spread the load over enough boxes. Apache is much more flexible than Zeus.

-Kevin

Re:Alternative HowTo

On: High-Performance Web Server How-To

They're evaluating an Xserve at work compared to IBM blades. I'm anxious to see what their results are. I guess the admin software is nice.

-Kevin

Re:That "howto" sucks

On: High-Performance Web Server How-To

Well, not to mention that high traffic sites usually have a bunch of webservers and then a load balancer in front of them. This article obviously isn't for big league web serving.

-Kevin

Re:"Three times the power?"

On: High-Performance Web Server How-To

That was total FUD. The two operating systems have comparable performance on the same hardware.

-Kevin

Re:But any web server is high-performance

On: High-Performance Web Server How-To

With dynamically generated web content it's different of course. But there you will normally be fetching from a database to generate the web pages. In which case you should consult articles on speeding up database access.

I'm just a programmer, but don't big sites put caching in front of the database? I always try to cache database results if I can. Honestly, I think relational databases are overused, they become bottlenecks too often.

-Kevin

Re:So fast and soo goo...

On: High-Performance Web Server How-To

It's still running. It's just extremely slow. Or maybe it's so fast it's zipping through space-time and it only seems slow from our reference frame.

-Kevin

Re:10'000 RPM

On: High-Performance Web Server How-To

10k drives are LESS reliable, since they move faster.

Okay, well ,you can use ancient MFM drives since they move much slower and would be more reliable by your logic.

Personally, I'd take 10k SCSI drives over 7.2k IDE drives for a server, no question.

-Kevin

Re:Burn All GIFS

On: Library of Congress Map Collections from 1500's

But Unisys actually requires a license. Assholes.

http://www.unisys.com/about__unisys/lzw/

-Kevin

Re:GIF Format?

On: Library of Congress Map Collections from 1500's

No it wasn't. And there were hand colored movies around 1900.

-Kevin

Re:GIF Format?

On: Library of Congress Map Collections from 1500's

Never thought I would see references to C&H in slashdot comments.

Errr...yeah, Calvin & Hobbes is about as obscure as Garfield.

-Kevin

Re:Read the Unicode spec....

On: XML 1.1 Spec Hits Some Snags

Yes, it's true. Unicode omits French. They couldn't find anything worthwhile to read in French so they just dropped it.

-Kevin

Re:interesting...

On: Review of Linux Mandrake 9.0

Wait until 9.1 comes out. I very rarely install X.0 or beta distributions. I still have Mandrake 8.2. I'm going to install Gentoo on my new system though. -Kevin

Re:no G5s or PPC 750s, then

On: Apple Won't Be At Macworld Boston

I wouldn't be surprised if Apple were trying to break from the pattern of announcing all their new shit at conferences (MW, SIGGRAPH, etc). That leads to too much speculation.

It leads to a buzz, memes, mindshare. Why would you not want people anticipating your products?

-Kevin

Re:In other news...

On: Apple Won't Be At Macworld Boston

Microsoft goes to MacWorld. Apple users are just more customers.

-Kevin

Re:more backwards compatible than Itanium, but

On: AMD Talks About Internal Benchmarks for Opterons

*MORE* backward compatible? I didn't realize that Itanium had ANY backward compatibility.

Since it does, I guess the rest of your post is pointless.

-Kevin

Re:Here's why I won't use it

On: Phoenix 0.3 Is Out

We have internal sites that use VBScript (developed by idiots), and you're forced to use IE for those. There are pages that have both JavaScript and VBScript. It's stupid.

-Kevin